The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-05-20
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him ;,
..Hos = scar on one cbeek,N echoed
Maud family, after an instant's blank
silence.
"Oh, Maud, what shall we do?"
moaped Mrs Estabrook. sinking into A
seat ..And we have ACTUALLY invited
him TO rea-a burglar, Wen. for A
friend. | thouoht he seemed very un-
certain about Tom"
II noticed that, too" answered
Maud, with bent brow. recalling a GER
tain unrcadinpSs of tone and manner
which had struck her as strange at the
time. mamma, she continued, 1--WE
must send Bridget or Maggie over to
the village for help"
No." almost screamed Mrs. Esta-
brook, mot another person must leave
the house! Oh, how could Peter choose
the very day Tom was gone? When
he knows how nervous am, too!-and
to think told that-that desperate out
there, that there wasn't man about
the place. Maud! Maud! what shall
we do?"
Il think l have a plan, mamma,
said Maud, raising her head from her
brown study. "Wait a moment" She
flew up stairs and down again. Now
come out on the piazza. He muSn' t
suspect anything"
THE two ladies joined their I'M
welcomed guest and Mrs. EstabrOok
rushed into a feveriSh conversation
with him. But her talk was of sing
ularly warlke kind, turning manly up
on revOlverS. and the proficiency at
tanned in the use of these deadly weap-
ons by Bridget and Maggie, two un-
sophisticated handmaidens, who in
fact would not have known a toy pistol
from a Gatling- gun. Maud, in spite
of her tension of anxiety, grew speech
less with laughter behind her fan as she
listened, furitivelv watching the stran-
gers face, and noting his just-con-
trolled uneasiness. Finally, like one
who takes a resolution, he began alb
ruptly, Il really am in very false
position"
.'Oh, | beg your pardon, Mr.. Fol-
lott" quickly interposed Maud, fear
ing that, in his rising suspicious, she
would lose her carefully pre- pared coup.
If YOU would like to remove any lin
gering dust of travel, you have just
time before tea.
The Young man rose at this hint, and
Maud. volunteering to show the way,
accompanied him I'D the broad stair
case, and smilingly indicated the room
where his knapsack had been left. No
sooner had he stcpped within than.
quick as a flash. the girl shut the door
and locked it on the outside, where she
had already placed the KEY. Then she
leaned painting against the wall. and
listened to the movements of the
rrappeG burpiar.
For a few moments there was perfect
silence, as # he was irving TO realize
the meaning of the click of tile lock;
then she heard him 90 to the door and
turn the hanAe, first softly. then louder
and louder. Maud clapped her hands
tightly together, feeling almost hyster.
zeal between LAUGHTER and nervousness.
Then the rattlin9 stopped, and a voice
said. slowly:
"Miss EstabrookI Are YOU still
therep'
yes answered Maud. holding her
breath.
..You are not aware that you have
locked me inpn
Maud hesitated for an instant. But
since the exclamation must come !,
!, :,